After last year’s fourth place in Stockholm, Bulgaria seems to have taken this year more seriously. The public broadcaster (BNT) wants to repeat the success and hopefully produce a better result. According to current local reports, the winner BNT’s internal selection carried is 17 years old Kristian Kostov. Read more
The Greek broadcaster hasn’t announced yet the date of the national final, but according to reliable sources this will be held on March 6th. Greek media revealed today the type of the three potential Eurovision songs and their creators. Demy will sing one of them in Kyiv. Read more
After five nights of competition, we have finally found the winner of the Sanremo Festival. Francesco Gabbani is the winner of the historical music festival and, as RAI has confirmed, the Italian representative in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
It was a break from the Campioni competition tonight as 16 of them performed covers of famous Italian or foreign songs. The best cover performance, as chosen by an equal combination of votes from a press jury and a televote, was Ermal Meta and he was awarded a special prize. Read more
After the second semi-final of Italy’s Sanremo Festival, the list of songs which might represent the country at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest is completed. Eight out of eleven songs qualified directly to the final, whereas the other three entries still need to compete for their place. Read more
This evening, the famous Italian music festival Sanremo kicked off. With some of the most popular Italian artists competing for this year’s trophy, worldwide guests and complex and endless voting, the festival started with the first eleven ‘big’ artists presenting their songs to the public. Read more
Starting today, until Saturday, the famous Italian music festival Sanremo will be held. Twenty-two artists in the Campioni Category will be competing for the victory and consequently have the right to represent Italy at Eurovision 2017. The jury and the running order for tonight’s show has just been revealed. Read more
This year’s Greek entry to be performed by Demy will include an orchestra. The Symphony Orchestra of ERT has taken part in the recording of all three songs of which one will be chosen as her 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
In two days Teatro Ariston will open its gates for the 67th annual Sanremo music festival. Festival di Sanremo will be used as the selection format for the Italian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest. Let’s take a look at this fascinating show, which is more complex than any other national selection. Read more
We know the artist, the songwriter and after three clues, now also the title. However, we need to wait until the 1st of March to hear the Cypriot Gravity entry. The official video is being prepared as well as the stage performance. Read more
British superstar Robbie Williams joins this year’s Sanremo party for a special guest performance. Fiorella Mannoia, on the other hand, is one of the participants, and she is tipped as the favourite to win the prestigious music festival, which selects the Italian Eurovision act. Read more
The Greek national final will be held in early March, where the public as well as Greek communities abroad will decide the 38th Greek entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. That was revealed today at an ERT press conference where Demy also attended. Read more
The allocation draw for Eurovision 2017 semi final will take place next Tuesday in Kyiv, 31st of January. From the column hall of Kiev’s City State Administration at 11:00 CET, Mrs Eva-Louise Erlandsson Slorach, President of the City Council in Stockholm, will formally hand over the Host City Insignia to Kyiv City Mayor Vitaliy Klychko. Read more
Rúnar Eff is one of 12 candidates fighting to win this year’s Söngvakeppnin and represent Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest. We talked to him about the song, which is now available in both English and Icelandic, but also about his relationship to the contest. Read more
Today, the Cypriot representative in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest went to Stockholm to record the song, which Swedish songwriter Thomas G:Son composed for him. This will be the entry Hovig will sing in Kyiv, Ukraine in May. Read more
Last week ERT announced that Demy will represent Greece in Kyiv. Dimitris Kontopoulos will write three songs for Demy. The public, alone, will vote in a televised national final for the song that will represent the country in Eurovision. Demy will travel to Ukraine to film the video clips of the potential Greek entries. Her team is… Read more
Demy has been internally chosen to represent Greece at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, but the public will decide which song she will sing in Kyiv, Ukraine in May. Three potential entries will be up for voting. All of them in English and written by Dimitris Kontopoulos who will work again with Fokas Evangelinos for… Read more
The first interview for the 67th Song Festival of Sanremo was held today. For another year, RAI will select its representative at Eurovision through this most famous and historic national final of Europe. Let’s see what host Carlo Conti had to reveal for all that we will see next month in Sanremo. Read more
Tiziano Ferro will perform on the first night of Sanremo 2017, just like he also did in the 2015 edition of the most famous Italian music festival. Carlo Conti announced him as the the first Italian super guest star for the upcoming 2017 edition of Sanremo. Read more
Shortly before 2016 ends, the broadcaster have not yet decided how they will select the representative of Greece for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. Now a new scenario saw the light of day. A national final only with the video clips of the candidate songs where the audience and the jury will determine the winner. Read more
The 2017 national selection season is in full swing. Information is coming in so quickly that it can be hard to keep up. Here we bring you the latest news from Israel, Georgia, Norway and Romania. Read more
Who are the 22 artists taking part in the Campioni category of Sanremo 2017 that were announced last night? We take a closer look at the potential Eurovision candidates. Read more
This evening on prime time TV from Sanremo’s Villa Ormond, Carlo Conti revealed the names of the 22 artists taking part in the Campioni division of the upcoming Sanremo. All of them are possible Italian entrants for Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv. Read more
Six artists fought for the 4 tickets that let them continue for the second semi final of the Depi Evratesil selection in Armenia. Only two weeks left only before we will know who will wave the Armenia flag in Kyiv, Ukraine in May next year. Read more
A non selected band today released a list which they say is the Campioni candidates for the 2017 Sanremo festival. Are they right, or just trying to stir things up with a fake list? This just just a few days before Carlo Conti will announce the participants in the Campioni and Giovani division. Read more
The Georgian broadcaster GPB listed 28 potential entries for their national final. Now just 26 remain. In the line-up we find one who previously have been selected for Georgia. Back then she didn’t get to go to Eurovision. Will she make it this time? Read more